guns in america, for the first time since the newtown tragedy, the nra responds to accusations they are out of touch, growing debates over the 2nd amend machine. >> >> thanks for joining us, i'm adam may. the nra sticks to its guns, refusing to allow gun control into the debate over how to stop the mass shootings. edward lawrence has the very latest tonight for "wjz." >> reporter: crowds packed the lone star gun show in fort texas as the gun control debate heats up. some say this is in the wake of

the connecticut school shooting. >> i'm 100% for gun control, if someone would coming with gun control that makes sense and make makes a difference. but there is no such thing >> reporter: the organization is getting hammered for the proposal to put armed guards in schools. >> if it's crazy to call for putting police in our securing our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy. i'll tell you what, the american people think it's crazy not to do it. >> reporter: new york senator chuck schumer said nothing should be taken off the table when talking about gun control. >> trying to prevent shootings in schools is like talking about trying to prevent lung cancer without talking about cigarettes. >> reporter: kay daley hutchinson is a gun supporter >> i think we ought to be looking at where the real

danger is, the large clips, i think it needs to be looked at. >> reporter: several states are reexamining gun control. president obama formed a task force to look at ways to reduce gun violence. edward lawrence, "wjz" "eyewitness news." >> this has lead to a surge in gun sales. three years of ar15 ammunition magazines have been told in the last three days. >> >> fiscal cliff talks, without a deal, automatic tax hikes and spending cuts would kick in january 1st, affecting almost all americans. democrats and republicans insist they are committed to reaching a deal. congress returning to washington the day after christmas. senator from hawaii, laid to rest. president obama and the first

lady attended the memorial service. he was the first japanese american elected to both houses of congress and the second largest serving u.s. senator. he was 88 years old. >> back here in maryland a police shooting in baltimore county, a police officer opened fire, killing a man who had a knife. that's where derrick is tonight with the details. >> reporter: police say the officer was acting in self- defense when he confronted and shot a suspicious man he found back here behind this gas station. it all started with an officer on routine patrol as he passed the shell gas station at ed monton around 3:45 in the morning. he noticed a suspicious man behind the building. police say when the officer asked the man to come out from behind the building, the man pulled out a knife. >> the officer attempted to use a taser to stop the situation, but it was ineffective.

the man refused repeated commands to drop the knife. >> reporter: police say fearing for his safety, the officer shot the man to the chest. he has been identified. he died from the gunshot back here at the scene. >> you have to be crazy to go towards the cop with something. >> reporter: this neighbor robert mills moved his family out of the city to avoid crime and realized that no place is immune to crime. >> life goes on, you have to do what you have to do. if you are religious, you pray and do what you can't to stay safe. >> reporter: some of the neighbors in this irarea are wondering if the man who was shot was the same man they had been seen loitering around the area gas station. they say he appears to be mentally unstable. live in the penn hills area, derrick, belcore "wjz" "eyewitness news" >> thank you, derrick. the police have not identified

the police officer involved in it. he is on routine leave pending the outcome of the investigation >> police say a person was dead when they were pulled from the water at the world trade center this morning. the medical exaim am inner is working to determine the identity and cause of death. a former oriole discovered dead inside of his home. he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the 36-year-old who played nine games back in 2009 was acquired from the reds as a trade. he retired in 2009 and most recently worked for an organization that helped to develop young baseball players >> ravens delivered an early christmas present to fans. reaction from the much-needed victory. >> reporter: after three troubling losses in a row, all is now well with the ravens

after a blowout win over the new york giants, clenching another division title for the ravens and secures another home playoff game. in a word, the ravens offense was awesome. scoring touchdowns in their first two possessions in the first quarter, rolling up more than 500-yards for the game and a defense dominant. containing giants qb eli manning and sacking him three times. outcome never in doubt, 33-14 ravens victory. >> even though we lost three, we kept saying we had everything ahead of them maybe not exactly what we wanted, but we could still win the division. this is a championship game for us. next week, you will understand. but, this was the championship. this was the -- you know what?

home playoff game back-to-back. >> >> reporter: the ravens will wrap up the regular season on the road at playoff bound cincinnati. then, the ravens are back here in baltimore to play host to a first round playoff opponent, back to you. >> >> all right, mark, thanks so much >> the ravens first round playoff opponent will either be cincinnati or the indianapolis colts. wouldn't that be interesting >> a false fire alarm delays some holiday travelers. it went off in the southwest baggage claim area. several throughouts were southwest flights were held to assure that the passengers and their luggage arrive at the

same time >> gigi barnett reports that some last-minute shoppers have interesting strategy trying to check everything off their list. >> this is my strategy. >> reporter: less than 48 hours to go it wrap up christmas shopping and jennifer has a plan, it's called the list. >> glory, uncle bill -- yeah, many people on my list, two pages long, a lot of notes and scribbles. >> one strategy may send her ahead of other shoppers in the town center this weekend. another day plan that cuts down on time and saves cash -- >> get here early before the lines, good parking spot. a lot of great sales going on. if you did wait until the last- minute, you could get some good deals. >> retailers are waiting and ready. senior mall park manager, saying that things are discounted even more for the last-minute crowd. >> i see a lot of deals, 30,

40, even 50% off. in the past, you have had sales after christmas. i think we'll have the after christmas sales and i am seeing the sales before christmas. >> reporter: black friday came early, giving last-minute shoppers more time to buy presents >> i haven't done my wife, yet, so i save the best for last. >> reporter: brad is not a last- minute shopper. his strategy, shop before going to the mall. >> it's all online. we don't do much mall shopping. normally, i wouldn't do this, except it's a fun day of shopping with my daughters. retailers are hoping to get many last-minute shoppers in, offering extended hours, right up to christmas, i saw online tonight, a lot of stores have instant gift certificates you can print on your computer. another option for you if you don't want to head out. >> >> still to come on "eyewitness news." violent protestifies out rage

in india over a gang rape leading to massive demonstrations. >> it's scary, you know, you are close to some things, really terrible >> holiday tragedy, a deadly wrong way crash >> and a run away baby. check this out, wisconsin police officer saves an infant's life. . the 2012 growing season has come and gone, more on the end of this year's baltimore farmer's market, coming up >> i'm meteorologist bernadette woods. calm night tonight. that will change tomorrow. your complete first warning forecast, coming up when "eyewitness news" returns. .

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partly cloudy, temperatures dropping. 28 degrees in central maryland, right now, bernadette will have the complete first warning forecast and the possibility of a couple of storms coming up, but first -- . [ chanting ] >> protests over the beating and rape of a 23-year-old woman growing violent in india. today, police sprayed protesters with water, trying to get them to disburse. an protesters are demanding more help from authorities to insure the safety of women.

days before christmas, a wrong way crash in ohio claims four lives, including a seven- year-old boy. police say the wrong way driver made a u-turn on the highway an crashed into a van carrying a family of six. the wrong way driver and her son died. the woman driving the van an the man in the passenger seat also died. the family was driving to visit relatives for the holidays. alcohol may have been a factor. >> >> a moment of sheer terror for any mother, seeing her child rolling in a shopping cart. check it out on videotape. a police officer was on patrol, he saw the child in the yellow cart speeding away, a few feet away from the highway and the officer rushed into action. >> my immediate reaction, he was traveling fast, i knew there was not an option to stop the cart, but i had to do something to try to stop traffic because it was heading

toward a busy highway >> lucky little kid. the officer was able to stop the cart and save the child. luckily, no other cars were out there. police say the mother was placing her other child in the car when the cart started to roll away >> farmers and merchants say good-bye to another season at the farmer's market. tim williams reports on a bittersweet time >> reporter: from mistle toe to merry christmas in german. this year's baltimore farmer's market and bazaar has left a good taste in the mouths of customers and vendors who are sad to see it go. >> i'm not happy it is the last day. i wish with there were more of it. >> >> reporter: the countdown for next year is already underway. >> april 7th, it starts. >> reporter: closing is still somewhat bittersweet.

>> i have mixed feelings, but i'm ready for a little break, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: despite an unpredictable economy, this season has been successful. all are now stocking up to the beginning of the 2013 season. >> just everything. stuff i can't live three months without. >> reporter: final day found fans of food and football shopping side by side. >> fans have some shoppers market. >> reporter: as this current market season is disappearing in a perverbial puff of smokes, sights and sounds of this holiday season will have to go on until spring. >> you don't have to wait too long for some of the good snacks there. the farmer's market will start up again april 7th >> really heavy snow is battering parts of eastern china. the warnings were issued because the temperatures and

heavy wind were severe. it was so cold sea water froze almost instantly. ice covered structures and ropes on the edge of the water. the winter weather is forecasted to last throughout the rest of the week. >> >> it won't be long until we are shoveling here, too, right, maybe? it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in our own backyard. some reindeer made an appear an. look at them. i don't know what they like out there, crisp temperatures, maybe our decorations? bernadette, good thing you are not out there >> no, sometimes, they come a little close when we are out there and stare you down. >> it's amazing how many deer we have living up here on tv hill. woe had one jump into the fenced in parking lot and one of our photographers helped to corral it out >> as far as reindeer go. it's going to be foggy, damp

out there. we do have the first of a couple of storms moving our way, tomorrow. tomorrow is not a big one. we'll get to that in a moment. >> it's messy. >> it's messy. today, beautiful day out there, we topped out in the 40s, average is 43, dropping pretty quickly. now, now, we are also dropping. 40 degrees in ocean city. not much of a wind out there. we have lost that, today as the sunset returned, but all of that will be changing. clouds coming back in because of this next storm system moverring our way. i want to point out there is another one already making its way to the west coast, a lot of mountain snow. excuse me. that will be factoring into our forecast. we'll get to that in a moment. first up, the first one coming our way. tomorrow, it will break out with precipitation an i use a

broad term because it will be a mix for some of us before changing over to rain. this is a rain event. out west in the mountains, we do have a freezing rain advisory that goes into effect at 5:00 am, continuing to 1:00 p.m. this is a section of allegheny county, a winter weather advisory for the same times. for the rest of us who see a sleet snow mix, it will change over to rain and the amounts will not be heavy with this storm. it's a light one and gets out of here for tuesday, sunshine returning christmas day. wednesday, the next storm comes our way. clouds come in. this one will be bigger. probably going to cause more disruption as we head wednesday into thursday. you see that mixed zone right over maryland something we do need to watch and the third one will come our way next weekend. the holidays have arrived, so has the stormy weather. on the waters, east wind, 5-10 knots. we'll probably see some fog.

tonight, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. 26 degrees. tomorrow, clouds takings over pretty quickly. sleet, snow, rain mix to start before changing over to rain. amounts will be very light. 40 degrees for our high. taking a look at the next couple of days. on christmas, sunshine returns up to 46 degrees and here comes our second storm, this one has a little more to it and as we head into next weekend, a third one moves our way, behind it, cold air for new year's eve festivities. >> >> viewers are commenting on our facebook page. they want that snow for christmas. >> >> still to come in sports, the big apple comes to baltimore. stan has highlights

stan is here. you couldn't ask for a better

christmas present could you? >> the best case scenario for the ravens down the road is to win against cincinnati and home playoff game against either the colts or the bengals. keep winning and they might get more home games. now, they are trying to get home games in the playoffs. hey folks, they not only chopped down the defending somebody champs -- in relatively easy offense. helds visiting new york giants to 186-yards total offense. ravens first two proeggs ises, they have a pair of touchdowns, joe to smith, six yards. hang on snoopy, hang on. library the song used to say. first quarter, flacco scores what they call a one yard touchdown officially. second quarter, ray rice following this reception from

flacc o, 27-yards down south. touchdown, makes it 23-7. add another four field goals in the last quarter alone. the rookie justin tucker. for no flacc o, 209-yards passing. eli had only 150. winning back-to-back division titles, a team first, by the way, defending somebody champs, 8-7, still clinging to playoff hopes >> let's go to the ravens locker room. >> huge to get it this way after what we have been going through. we have been fighting. this season, it's a journey. we still have a game left. it's really special, how far we take each other, we'll find out. that remains to be seen, but, this is sure a great group of guys to be around every day and for them to earn a championship like this means a lot. in an earlier game,

pittsburgh, hall-of-famer, franco harris on the left -- 24 seconds, left in the game, tied at 10 apiece. ben roethlisberger throwing over mike wallace's head to leon hall, the other guy. aj green up the side line, hit, setting up the game winning field goal from 43 from josh brown. bengals clench a playoff spot with a 13-10 win. steelers eliminated. >> we have to clean some things up defensively, we had one bad play. we have to keep hanging in there. a good win. we made some plays on special teams, some plays we have to fix. all in all, we played for 60 minutes, which we knew it would be and it was a good win for us. . >> okay, that's marvin lewis, used to be linebackers coach

here when the ravens won the superbowl in year 2000. we'll see him next sunday. then, maybe again the following sunday in the first round of the playoffs if it's not the indianapolis colts >> all right, stan. who used to be the baltimore ravens. it used to be

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